Museums10 is a collaboration of seven campus and three campus-affiliated museums that work together to celebrate the collections and promote the programs of its member museums to local, regional and national visitors. Museums10 is facilitated by Five Colleges, which provides major administrative support for the partnership.
Our Museums
Beneski Museum of Natural History
The Beneski Museum of Natural History is one of New England’s largest natural history museums, featuring three floors of exhibits with more than 1,700 specimens on display.
Emily Dickinson Museum
The Emily Dickinson Museum comprises two historic houses in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts associated with the poet Emily Dickinson and members of her family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Co-founded by Eric and Barbara Carle in 2002, The Carle, as it’s known, is the international champion of picture book art, housing a rich and deep collection of art, illuminating its collection through exhibitions, education, programming, and art-making.
Hampshire College Art Gallery
The Hampshire College Art Gallery is an exhibition space for visual arts, installations, performances and video presentations.
Historic Deerfield
Historic Deerfield Inc., founded in 1952, is an outdoor museum that interprets the history and culture of early New England and the Connecticut River Valley.
Mead Art Museum
The Mead Art Museum houses the art collection of Amherst College, spanning 5,000 years and encompassing the creative achievements of many world cultures.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
The encyclopedic permanent collection contains 24,000 objects that are used extensively by faculty and integrated into the college’s liberal arts curriculum.
Smith College Museum of Art
The institution is widely known for its collection of American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
University Museum of Contemporary Art
The teaching museum of the University of Massachusetts Amherst maintains a permanent collection of approximately 3,000 works on paper.
The Yiddish Book Center
Celebrating Yiddish through educational programs, lectures, performances, and our groundbreaking exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture which tells the extraordinary story of modern Yiddish culture through hundreds of objects and personal stories.
Museums10 Groups
Current M10 Groups include the following. To find out about upcoming group meetings and to join the listserve for announcements, contact fc-museums10@fivecolleges.edu.
Collections Care: Tour of collections storage followed by happy hour at a local pub twice per year. Location rotates among M10 museums.
Curators Group: Gallery talk and discussion twice per year. Location rotates among M10 museums. Next meeting: Fall 2025 @ UMCA!
Educators Group: Social gathering approx. four times per year at local coffee shops. Subgroup of M10 educators collaborating on K12 Field Trips in 2025-6.
Inclusion Group: Discussion and resource sharing for M10 staff in all positions interested in accessibility, equity, and inclusion efforts. Meeting frequency varies with current projects and interests.
Marketers Group: Meets monthly via Zoom to share resources and updates. Subgroups gather for skill sharing on topics of interest.
Don’t see a group that interests you? Propose a new one!
Collections Database
The Five Colleges and the Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium Collections Database is a searchable database containing information about catalogued objects from the collections of seven museums in western Massachusetts: the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum of Mount Holyoke College, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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